Dare to risk public criticism.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
That which costs little is less valued.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
